EP0453537B1 - Systeme de chargement et dechargement pour le transport ferroviaire de conteneurs geants et de semi-remorques - Google Patents

Systeme de chargement et dechargement pour le transport ferroviaire de conteneurs geants et de semi-remorques Download PDF

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EP0453537B1
EP0453537B1 EP90916350A EP90916350A EP0453537B1 EP 0453537 B1 EP0453537 B1 EP 0453537B1 EP 90916350 A EP90916350 A EP 90916350A EP 90916350 A EP90916350 A EP 90916350A EP 0453537 B1 EP0453537 B1 EP 0453537B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
    • B61D3/00—Wagons or vans
    • B61D3/16—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads
    • B61D3/18—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads for vehicles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
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    • B61D3/18—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads for vehicles
    • B61D3/182—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads for vehicles specially adapted for heavy vehicles, e.g. public work vehicles, trucks, trailers
    • B61D3/184—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads for vehicles specially adapted for heavy vehicles, e.g. public work vehicles, trucks, trailers the heavy vehicles being of the trailer or semi-trailer type
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
    • B61D47/00—Loading or unloading devices combined with vehicles, e.g. loading platforms, doors convertible into loading and unloading ramps
    • B61D47/005—Loading or unloading devices combined with road vehicles carrying wagons, e.g. ramps, turntables, lifting means

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  • This, invention relates to swop-body transportation with particular relevance to railway shuttle type operations in which a series of bodies - coaches, tank-bodies, semitrailers, or the like - are carried on rail wagons.
  • Swop-body is in use in transport systems around the World especially road-to-rail, and vice-versa , interfaces.
  • the system In some countries the system is known as 'Piggyback', and in some other countries it is called 'Kangaroo'.
  • Swop-body has application where the expense of long-haul on road transportation of driver/tractor/trailer can be defrayed by placing the road trailer on a low-slung rail wagon and moving it as part of a trainload on a trunk haul.
  • Swop-body systems are not normally integral with shuttle systems, and the pace of turnround of swop-body trainloads is not critical.
  • Swopping of bodies is normally one wagon at a time, lift off/lift on operation performed by a terminal crane; a straddle carrier; or by a lift truck.
  • Road semitrailer loading may be accomplished by driving along the length of a train of low-slung wagons having bridging plates over the wagon couplings and buffers.
  • a more recent variation is the provision of rail wellwagons in which the well may be turned out to one side of the track to permit a road semitrailer to enter/exit diagonally to the line of the rail track.
  • This system suffers from the disadvantages of expensive well turnout mechanisms on each wagon; trailer discharge must be completed before trailer loading commences, and both discharged and loading trailers require to operate from one side of the trackway causing congestion - especially for customs at frontier terminals.
  • the present invention seeks to integrate swop-body and shuttle systems in a manner which maintains flexibility whilst reducing turnround times, with attendant economies of both speeded-up service and higher utilisation rates of expensive capital equipment.
  • the invention provides a system comprising shuttle trains with wagons having special features for discharging and loading swop-bodies at specially equipped terminal platforms in which discharge and load times for entire trainloads can be measured in minutes rather than hours.
  • a system of the invention is comprised of swop-bodies; single rail track terminal platforms with angularly displaced bays on both sides of the rail track; and elevation/rotation means to raise then rotate the arriving bodies to alignment with the angularly displaced bays of the terminal platform prior to swopping of the arriving bodies from the rail wagons onto empty arrival bays on one side of the platform simultaneously with departing bodies moving from departure bays on the opposite side of the rail track onto the rail wagons .
  • the terminal is divided by a single rail track into arrival and departure platforms on opposing sides of the rail trackway. This feature is of considerable benefit in simplifying traffic flows and, in frontier locations, easing customs seperation of imports and/or immigrants from exports and/or emigrants..
  • the locomotive Upon arrival of a trainset in a terminal, the locomotive stops precisely adjacent a platform marking, alternatively against arrestors/buffers, in which stopped position the centres of the wagons are plumbed over the elevation/rotation mechanisms located between the railway lines and retracted below rail surface level.
  • a shuttle system primarily, but not exclusively, for the transport of road semitrailers and/or other high unaccompanied commercial vehicles is equipped with railway bogie wellwagons in which loose frames form the floors of the wells. Suitably stiffened by longitudinal girder(s), each wellfloor frame is pushed up with swop-body superimposed by elevation/rotation mechanisms located below, and rising from, the centre of the rail trackway at or near midlength of the wagon. Fully raised and prior to rotation the lower edges of the wellfloor frame would be a small distance above the top surface of the wellwagon sides. Following rotation to alignment with arrival and departure bays the wellfloor frame lowers to rest upon the platform surfaces on both sides of the railway track at a level marginally above the top of the wellwagon sides. After departure bodies have swopped with the arrival bodies the foregoing sequence is reversed and the tops of all of the high road vehicles are maintained within rail loading gauge height restrictions.
  • Rolling stock only earns for railway operators when rolling, and merchandise in transit is costing interest to consignors or consignees.
  • the rapid turnround of, trainloads of semitrailers or other swop-bodies holds promise of economic benefits to operators and users.
  • a shuttle train of the invention shown in the accompanying drawings - intended for rail transport of swop-body traffic - has a series of rail wagons comprised of rail bogie wheels (1), a wellwagon (2) supporting a loose wellfloor frame (3).
  • Transfer of the arriving swop-body, which typically may be a road semitrailer (4), with transfer of a departing swop-body (not shown) is carried out at special single track (5) platforms (6) characterised by elevation/rotation mechanisms (7) to raise the wellfloor frames (3) with swop-bodies/semitrailers atop, then to rotate about vertical axis (8) from alignment with the rail track (5) to alignment with angularly displaced arrival and departure bays on platforms (6) on opposing sides of rail track (5).
  • the train of wellwagons powered by a locomotive stops at a pre-determined marking on the platform - alternatively against arrestor/buffers (not shown).
  • the elevation of the wellfloor frame (3) with semitrailer (4) atop continues to a level above the top of the wellwagon, (2), and above platform surfaces (6).
  • the wellfloor frame (3) is lowered to rest on the platform surfaces (6) on either side of the rail track (5), which surfaces are marginally higher than the tops of the wellwagons (2).
  • Swop coach bodies (9) for two-level loading of passenger cars and small vans may be made interchangeable with single level loading swop-bodies by arranging the half-height platform (10) vertically moveable, either slightly upwards as shown in Figs.4 and 5, or fully lowered to rest on the coach floor for the transport of high vehicles as shown in Figs.6 and 7.

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  1. Un système de transport ferroviaire pour équipements interchangeables, dans lequel des wagons à plate-forme surbaissée (2) ont un chassis surbaissé (3) qui peut être soulever légèrement au-dessus du wagon et du niveau du quai (6) par un dispositif élévateur/pivotant (7). Le chassis ainsi que sa semi-remorque (4) ou autre charge peuvent ensuite être pivotés autour d'un axe vertical (8) pour être aligner avec les quais d'arrivée ou de départ, aménagés obliquement des deux côtes d'une voie ferrée unique. Enfin, le chassis peut être rebaissé pour reposer sur le quai (6), permettant le déchargement/chargement rapides des équipements interchangeables transportés.
  2. Un système de transport ferroviaire pour équipements interchangeables, tel que décrit au Para.1 ci-dessus, dont le chassis surbaissé (3), chargé d'une semi-remorque ou autre équipement (4), peut être soulevé au niveau du plancher au-dessus des bogies, permettant aux véhicules d'accéder au wagon dans toute sa longueur.
  3. Un système de transport ferroviaire pour équipements interchangeable, tel que décrit aux Paras.1 et 2 ci-dessus, où les wagons sont munis de carrosseries interchangeables (9) avec plate-forme élévatrice (10) permettant le transport des véhicules bas sur deux niveaux, ou de véhicules hauts sur un niveau, sur plate-forme en position basse.
  4. Un système de transport ferroviaire pour équipements interchangeables, tel que décrit au Para.1 ci-dessus, dont la carrosserie est formée de conteneurs géants munis de roues pour le chargement et déchargement de châssis wagons (3).
EP90916350A 1989-11-13 1990-11-12 Systeme de chargement et dechargement pour le transport ferroviaire de conteneurs geants et de semi-remorques Expired - Lifetime EP0453537B1 (fr)

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